Eventually, demands that Courtney kill herself gave way to a rumor that she was secretly pregnant with Bieber's love child. Courtney said that got to her more than any other comments.

"They started saying I was pregnant with his child, and that my child would be a prostitute," she told a local paper.

Courtney's mother Tina called the whole thing "silly," but also said it should be taken seriously. "I wonder if the parents of the 12-year-old know about what their daughter has been posting," she said.